“By looking beyond the territory of land to the question of ocean governance we can see how “normal” forms of sovereignty get stretched or even turned inside out for the purposes of states, corporations, NGOs, and individuals. The oceans reveal that sovereignty is not a permanent, symbolic status, but rather a liquid strategy of constantly re-written rules.”

 Essay: Ocean Governance: Cash-strapped nations rule the ocean

Public Play Space Symposium Proceedings, ed. Chiara Farinea and Marco Ingrassia, IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia ISBN:978-84-120885-4-0, 2021, pp.100-101

“The platform’s interface enables the students to aggregate a series of different building elements into a larger whole. The resulting collaborative digital structure is the proof that a real-time building platform can be one way of digitalizing social contacts within the educational workplace.”

Project: Common Ground Collaborative Voxels

 Essay: Sovereignty for Sale

What is digital aesthetics today and do designers really have creative liberty when using the computer? Did programmers and creators of lazy and lame software such as Microsoft Paint ever think of their creative potential?

This project shows why Microsoft Paint is as valuable as AI-generated images - the latter demanding huge computing performance - and how both can be combined into an electric symbiosis of technoart, between techno humour and high-performance criticism, disputing today’s highly consuming, pricey and elitist design computation techniques.

keywords: lazy software, machine learning, hallucinating digital painting, computational creativity, animals in art, aesthetics of technology, MS Paint as technocultural artifact, digital media. 

Artworks and essay exhibited and published at 

“What is digital aesthetics today and do designers really have creative liberty when using the computer? Did programmers and creators of lazy and lame software such as Microsoft Paint ever think of their creative potential?“